Unmeasured information and the methodology of social scientific inquiry / by Donald W. Katzner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Katzner, Donald W., 1938-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences--Methodology.

Physical Description:

viii, 310 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [2001]

Contents:

1. Introduction: Science, Social Science, and Measurement 1

Part I Methodology

2. Our Mad Rush to Measure: How Did We Get into this Mess? 27

3. In Defense of Formalization in Economics 47

4. On Not Quantifying the Non-Quantifiable 61

Reply to Brennan 77

Letter to the Editor 81

5. Notions of Closeness in a Non-Quantifiable Setting 83

6. The Role of Formalism in Economic Thought, with Illustration Drawn from the Analysis of Social Interaction in the Firm 113

7. Institutionally Determined Parameters in Economic Equations 157

8. The Misuse of Measurement in Economics 175

9. Analysis with Ordinal Measurement 197

Part II Applications

10. Effort and Efficiency in the Neoclassical Firm 219

11. The Efficiency of Organizational Forms 231

12. Attitudes, Rationality, and Consumer Demand 253

13. Political Structure and System and the Notion of Logical Completeness 275

14. The Formal Structure of Argument in Professor Apter's Choice and the Politics of Allocation 281.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0792373367

OCLC:

46937520